Posted on 02/10/2011 4:58:51 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
Their mission was to solve a small but nagging mystery of Alzheimer's disease: How would the brain's ability to store information be affected if they "turned off" the obscure protein LRP1?
But Guojun Bu and his fellow researchers were in for a surprise. As they expected, mice whose brains had been wiped of the LRP1 gene showed Alzheimer's-like memory problems. But they also started to put on weight - fast.
The mice were lethargic. They were on their way to becoming diabetic. And they didn't seem to know when to stop eating.
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I was trying to figure out what it meant...but your comment fits it best! Thanks!
I doubt this study. If there truly was a link between Alzheimers and carrying extra weight, I would have had Alzheimers by the age of, oh, about 20 . . . . .
They found a protein trigger which if turned off causes multiple bad things. Too bad they can’t find a trigger which is turned off causes good things like shiny hair or weight loss, or whiter teeth.
Yes, and why is it that so many drugs have weight gain as a side effect? Where are the ones that cause weight loss? ;-)
Ha, ha, I like how you think.
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